Thomas faulder



(No Model.)

T. FAULDER.

VEHICLE BODY.

Patented Oct 11,1892.

I ll J17 II I II I UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS FAULDER, OF SYRACUSE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO CHRISTOPHER O. BRADLEY, OF SAME PLACE.

VEHICLE-BODY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 484,089, dated October 11, 1892.

Application filed February 3, 1892. Serial No. 420,150- (No model.)

for holding the corners of the body together.

Heretofore the construction of the corner was such as to permit water to collect in the corners of the body upon being washed on the inside or when exposed to rain, which caused the sills and side-boards of the body to become soaked and their glue-joints to spread or open.

The objects of my invention are to construct the corner in such manner that the parts constituting it are securely connected together, that the water is permitted to escape, and that no metal is exposed on the outside of the corner.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional perspective view of the corner of a wagon-body provided with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof in line 00 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section in line y y, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the metallic corner-brace.

Like letters of reference refer to like parts in the several figures.

A A represent the adjacent portions of two of the sills of a wagon-body; a, the bottom secured in a rabbet on the under sides of the sills; B B, the adjacent portions of two of the upright boards, which are secured with their lower portions to the outer sides of the sills, and 0 one of the corner-posts, which are arranged on the inside of the body and secure the adjoining ends of the upright boards together. The adjoining ends of the sills are preferably mitered and held together by a screw cl, which passes through the miter-joint. The outer sides of the sills adjacent to the corner-posts are cut away, thereby reducing the ends of the sills and forming a vertical opening or passage 6 on each of the inner sides of the corner-posts and between the outer side of each sill and the upright board.

These openings permit the escape of any water which flows into the corner of the body while washing the wagon or when exposed to rain, thereby preventing the sills and cornerposts from becoming soaked with water, which would cause the glue-joints to open and the parts to spread or separate.

F represents one of the metallic corner stays or braces, whereby the adjoining ends of two sills are still further secured together and prevented from spreading. Each of these braces consists of an L-shaped plate f, arranged horizontally and provided with depending flanges g g and h h on its inner and outer sides, respectively. The inner flanges g 9 meet at the inner corner of the plate and form an angle-iron, While the outer flanges are separated at the outer corner of the plate, which is provided with an angular notch 72/. The plate straddles the inner corner of the corner-postby means of this notch, and the outer flanges rest against the inner sides of the corner-post. The plate f'rests upon the upper sides of the adjoining sills, while its flanges embrace the reduced ends of the sills and are secured to the same by transverse rivets i 2'.

My improved construction renders thecorner of the vehicle-body very strong and durable and efiectually prevents spreading of the sills and the cracking or opening of the corner-joint between the side-boards.

The corner-brace does not extend to the outer side of the vehicle-body, but is concealed from View and permits of a neat finish of the corner of the body.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a vehicle-body, the combination,with the upright boards, of sills provided with openings adjacent to the corner of the body and a corner-brace connecting the adjoining ends of the sills, substantially as set forth.

2. In a vehicle-body, the combination, with the upright boards, of sills recessed on their outer sides adjacent to the corner of the body, whereby vertical passages are formed between the upright boards and the sills, and a cornerbrace connecting the adjoining ends of the .inner and outer sides of. the sills, substanouter sides of the sills, substantially as set 10 tially as set forth. forth.

3. In a Vehicle-body, the combination,with Witness inyhand this 30th day of January, the upright boards and the post arranged in 1892. 5 the inner corner of the boards, of sills recessed adjacent to the post and a corner-brace con- THOMAS FAULDER' sisting of an angle-plate resting upon the sills Witnesses: and notched at its outer corner to straddle G. CQBRADLEY, the post and depending on the inner and THEO. L. POPP. 

